Sundance SMT8121 - Manual (Page 3)

Table of Contents
1 Introduction ..................................................................................................................... 5
2 Related Documents ........................................................................................................ 6
2.1 Referenced Documents.............................................................................................. 6
2.2 Applicable Documents............................................................................................... 6
3 Acronyms, Abbreviations and Definitions .............................................................. 6
3.1 Acronyms and Abbreviations ................................................................................... 6
3.2 Definitions.................................................................................................................... 6
4 Quick start........................................................................................................................ 7
4.1 What’s in the kit? ........................................................................................................ 7
4.2 Assembling the boards .............................................................................................. 8
4.3 Example....................................................................................................................... 11
5 Overview ........................................................................................................................ 11
6 The SMT8121 system .................................................................................................. 12
6.1 Sampling clock .......................................................................................................... 13
7 Hardware ........................................................................................................................ 14
8 A simple example ......................................................................................................... 15
8.1 Running the example ............................................................................................... 15
8.1.1 Connections........................................................................................................... 15
8.1.2 Running the software .......................................................................................... 15
8.1.3 Stand alone mode................................................................................................. 18
8.2 Implementation ......................................................................................................... 18
8.3 Building the example................................................................................................ 20
8.4 Resource usage.......................................................................................................... 20
9 Performance................................................................................................................... 21
9.1 No input – 1Gsps....................................................................................................... 21
9.2 Input sinewave at 100MHz – 1Gsps ...................................................................... 23
9.3 Input sinewave at 250MHz – 1Gsps ...................................................................... 24
10 System power consumption ...................................................................................... 26
11 Summary......................................................................................................................... 26
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